Americans Are Getting Sick of Marriage

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

This chart proves my point:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/23/144-years-of-marriage-and-divorce-in-the-united-states-in-one-chart/

The years between 1940 to 1950 & 1970 to 1980 are quite interesting. It seems to me that romantic relationships between men and women are great on a seasonal basis. I’ve seen very few happily married couples in my lifetime. How many married couples do you know who have kept their marriage together for more than 50 years?

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[Silverstone the SecondParticipant]

Nice link.

Really like the per capita break down. Always love how the media says people aren’t getting married because of the bad economy, and then you see people got married more during the great depression than they do today. The economy doesn’t get much worse than the great depression, and people still weren’t getting married.

Men quit giving a f~~~.

Feminism is a movement where opinions are presented as facts and emotions are presented as evidence.

[HitmanParticipant]

i’m american and i am sick of marriage !
Hahaaha!!!

[TuneoutParticipant]

Thats why the news makes such a big deal over couples
who’ve stayed together so long.

If it wasn’t rare it wouldn’t be newsworthy.

Lifes a bitch,but you don't have to marry one!

[Anonymous 54]

Tuneout wrote:

Thats why the news makes such a big deal over couples
who’ve stayed together so long.

If it wasn’t rare it wouldn’t be newsworthy.

Also if it didnt suck so bad they wouldnt make a big fuss about.

[The Laughing ManParticipant 1020]

They should have added a marker for no fault divorce.

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes...or should I?

[Anonymous 0]

The Laughing Man wrote:

They should have added a marker for no fault divorce.

From Wikipedia, in the article “No-fault divorce”:

California was the first U.S. state to pass a no-fault divorce law. Its law was signed by Governor Ronald Reagan and came into effect on January 1, 1970. New York was the last state to pass a no-fault divorce law; that law was passed in 2010.

[…]

By 1977, nine states had adopted no-fault divorce laws, and by late 1983, every state but South Dakota and New York had adopted some form of no-fault divorce…

So no-fault divorces became available starting in 1970 and were pretty much country-wide by 1983.

According to the graphs at the top of the article in the OP, divorces spiked during 1970-1983, and the marriage rate started dropping steadily beginning in 1983.

[Mr. ManParticipant 2916]

My mom is the wedding coordinator at her ginormous, denominational church in a metro area of four-million people.

She’s coordinated one wedding in the last 2 1/2 years.

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